September 12, 2024 • 27 mins
In this episode, we dive deep into the fascinating world of colloidal minerals and their vital role in maintaining our health. Our host starts by addressing a common question from listeners about the absence of colloidal caps in their product line, which leads to an intriguing backstory about the creation of PM Minerals Plus.
We explore the history behind the formulation of PM Minerals Plus, beginning with the initial challenges of selling colloidal mineral capsules and how Dr. James’ insistence on their efficacy led to the innovative blending of colloidal minerals with traditional mineral combinations. The episode recounts the initial resistance from retailers and their eventual realization of the superior benefits of PM Minerals Plus, resulting in a dramatic increase in orders and customer satisfaction.
The discussion then shifts to the science behind minerals and salts, explaining the chemical reactions that form various types of salts and their unique functions in the body. This foundational knowledge sets the stage for a detailed examination of the essential minerals found in PM Minerals Plus and their specific health benefits.
Listeners will gain insights into the critical roles of calcium, magnesium, and potassium, the three primary minerals in any multimineral formula, and their importance for bone health, muscle function, and overall body regulation. The episode also covers trace minerals such as chromium, selenium, vanadium, zinc, manganese, boron, copper, and iron, highlighting their contributions to blood sugar regulation, immune system support, connective tissue health, and more.
By the end of this episode, you'll have a thorough understanding of why minerals are crucial for our health, the innovative approach behind PM Minerals Plus, and why it’s a staple recommendation in protocols for various illnesses. Whether you are a long-time user of PM Minerals Plus or new to the world of colloidal minerals, this episode offers valuable knowledge to help you make informed decisions about your health.
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Music.
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So, today I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about, well, let's go back a bit.
So, somebody asked me, they're going through Dr.
James' book, The Reality of Verbal Therapy, and as they're going through the
protocols for illness section, with everything, you know, it gives the,
(00:31):
so it gives the illness, and underneath each illness it talks about the herbal
formulas that are good for it.
And the person reading through it, they're like, okay, every single one of them,
all of them without anything has colloidal caps and the minerals.
And they're like, why don't you make them anymore?
So they're like, we kind of want these colloidal caps that you keep talking
(00:56):
about, but you don't sell them.
So let's go back a little bit. When we were making colloidal caps,
caps we couldn't get rid of them nobody would buy them nobody would they were it was it was.
Colloidal minerals in a capsule nobody would buy them
and dr james was like if somebody's going
to take a mineral i would rather them take colloidal minerals
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over a mineral combination but nobody would take them so he's like solve the
problem let's mix them so that so we did that so we We took the minerals and
colloidal caps and mixed them and created PM Minerals.
Or if you look on the label, it's PM Minerals Plus. And then underneath it in
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smaller letters, it's chelated trace minerals.
So we mixed the two. So we're still making colloidal caps because the colloidal
caps were much more effective, much more, they helped with the mineral,
getting minerals into the body.
They helped with maintaining pH. They helped with blood sugar.
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Anything that you would take a mineral for, colloidal caps did it better.
So we wanted to put it out there. And it was really funny when we made the decision to do that.
We had a place that would order, like a store, they'd order four or five bottles
every week of the minerals.
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And then we put colloidal caps and mixed them. And we're like,
okay, now instead of the minerals, we have the PM Minerals Plus. us.
And they were livid. They were so upset.
They called us and yelled at us. And they said, you have to go back. We can't have this.
They're not white. They're not white like a mineral is supposed to be.
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They're gray or kind of grayish black.
They were mad at us. And so Dr. James was like, the colloidal minerals work better.
I can't bend on this. I know that the colloidal minerals work better.
So I need to have them mixed.
And, and so we talked about it. And we decided, well, let's just give them some so they can try them.
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And see how, see the difference that the minerals by themselves or the minerals
with colloidal minerals mixed in.
So we sent them some free samples to let them try it, to see what they thought of it.
They were still pretty livid with us because they're like, they're black.
They're not, they're not white like minerals are supposed to be.
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Minerals are supposed to be white.
And we're like, just try it, see what you think. So they tried it and they went
from take ordering ordering five bottles to 25 to 30 bottles of PM minerals every week.
Basically, it was like, it was a night and day difference. They're like,
these are the most amazing things.
I've had people call me and they're like, okay, I'm out traveling.
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I forgot, ran out of minerals, forgot to bring more.
What can I buy in the health food store that will make, that is the same thing?
And it's like, uh, there isn't an option because of the colloidal minerals.
So if If you do run out and you can't find it, if you can find a colloidal mineral,
which it's not easy to find, taking that along with a good multi-mineral will kind of approximate it.
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But colloidal minerals are really hard to find. That's why we put them into the PM minerals.
So to talk about minerals, we need to talk about salts.
So whenever, just about anybody, if you say salt, they think table salt.
You know, and if you've taken any chemistry, sodium chloride or whatever,
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it's table salt is what people think of when they talk about a salt.
But a salt in chemistry is when you have, there's a reaction with an acid and a base and a metal.
And the result is called a salt. Basically, what happens is all the hydrogen
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in the acid gets eaten up and is replaced with a metal.
So there's different kinds of salts. So when we talk about globbersalt,
which is another kind of salt that's made up of the sodium metal.
So the hydrogen is replaced with sodium. And the different kinds of salts do
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different things in the body. So a sodium is, it's very drying.
So like, you know, when people preserve meat in old fashioned ways,
salted pork, anything like that, basically they will take meat and they will pack it with salt.
Sodium salt and what that does is
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it sucks all the moisture out of it so that there's nowhere
for bacteria to grow because bacteria requires oxygen
and water to grow so if
you take all the water out bacteria can't grow and your food won't spoil so
that's why they pack it in salt it's a sodium salt there's also other salts
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that where the hydrogen is replaced with the magnesium and And that salt is Epsom salt.
So what magnesium does is it regulates a lot of the body systems,
but it also dumps the bowels.
So if you ever take like a dose of Epsom salt, it's going to make the bowels release.
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Some people will take magnesium before bed to help their bowels move first thing in the morning.
So so when whenever you
think of a white mineral like salt is white basically it's
a combination of a bunch of different salts and depending
on the acid that it comes from that's
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where you get the second half of the name so there's calcium citrate so the
citrate was the acid calcium or a tape or a tape was the acid part and then
it's replaced with the calcium metal or a magnesium metal or so that's where
you come up with different kinds of calcium.
Different kinds of minerals and stuff.
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So I kind of want to like give you a quick overview of what pH is just to help
you understand part of why we take minerals.
So the high pH, what it stands for is potential for hydrogen.
So our body uses hydrogen in different ways and in a mineral the hydrogen is
replaced with the metal that is then bioavailable which means that our body can use it.
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So when you have different different pHs of things, there was the hydrogen is
now replaced with a metal that our body can use.
So whether it's calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, boron, whatever.
So just to understand that, so when you have a salt, basically,
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instead of the hydrogen that the body can use, it has a metal that the body can use.
So I kind of want to talk about the different minerals
that are in the PM
minerals so of course you
know I talked a little bit about the colloidal caps
so colloidal minerals come from
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lots of different places so the the chelated trace minerals or the colloidal
minerals that are in the PM minerals basically these are ancient fossilized
swamps so the whenever there's plants or anything like that.
They take metals and they use different metals for different things for life.
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The different minerals that we have all around us, the plants take them and
use them. And then when we eat the plants, we are able to absorb those minerals.
And the reason we can absorb them is because the plant has already broken it down.
It's separated out the parts that we don't need. so these
fossilized swamps where the
chelated or the yeah the
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chelated trace minerals come from is the the
colloidal means that it's very very small which
means that it can pass through cell walls it can the minerals
can go wherever they need to go because the plants
have already broken it down so that's why
we put those in there they're they're minerals that are extremely bio available
there's a lot of minerals that we only
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need a tiny tiny tiny little bit about a little bit of in our bodies but they
make a whole big difference and so that's why those the colloidal minerals are
in there they're broken down they're already ready our body just takes them
and uses them wherever it needs it so.
So that's one of the major things in the PM minerals.
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So let's talk about the minerals that are in it and what they do.
So first and foremost, whenever you talk about a multi-mineral formula,
it's going to have three major things, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
Sometimes they'll say abbreviated version of that CalMag pot because those three
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are the major minerals that our body uses.
It uses those for structure, bones, teeth, regulates all of our nerves,
our muscles, helps our muscles to move, helps them to contract and relax and everything like that.
So those are the main things in any multimineral. So in the PM minerals,
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we have calcium citrate.
So the citrate's a very bioavailable version of calcium.
It can be digested easily, which means that it can be absorbed into the body.
But one of the things you always, always, always want to check for with any
mineral formula that you're taking, especially one that has calcium, is if it has vitamin D.
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Our body cannot use calcium if there's not vitamin D.
So if there's not vitamin D in the stomach when calcium arrives,
the body just pushes it out. It's thrown away. It's wasted.
It can't use it. So vitamin D is is one of the most essential things.
And it's not, it doesn't take a lot. It's little tiny bit of vitamin D,
but if you don't have vitamin D with the calcium, your body can't absorb it.
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So if you look at milk where they process it, you know, like 1%,
2%, whatever, they take out all of the fat, but then they have to put back in
vitamin D or your body can't use it.
So calcium Calcium is, you know, everybody knows about calcium because it's
what makes strong, dense bones.
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You know, if your bones aren't dense, they break easy. They become brittle.
So calcium is really important for bones. It helps with the structure of our entire body.
So it helps with the connection between bones and muscle, bone to bone, you know, any structure,
ligaments, tendons, all of that, the calcium is what connects and holds everything together.
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It's kind of, and it also helps with elasticity.
So if our muscles or our tendons can't move, then, you know,
you get all sorts of issues and pains and aches and things because there's not enough calcium.
Calcium is essential whenever there's growing pains.
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Calcium is the mineral that basically gives the elasticity.
Growing pains is that the muscles are stretching as the body is growing and
there's no elasticity, so it can't stretch any further.
So if you have a young child that's having growing pains, shin splints,
anything where the muscles are trying to be be stretched, but they don't have
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that elasticity, then calcium is really helpful.
A lot of times when we had some of our young children that had growing pains
and they would wake up in the night just in so much pain and crying and stuff.
And as a parent, you're just desperate to know what to do.
If you give them 2 p.m. minerals, within a half hour, they're able to go back
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to sleep and that pain is gone.
Restless leg syndrome quite often is just a calcium deficiency because the muscles
are, basically they're tight.
And so they're trying to stretch, but there's no elasticity.
So calcium is really, really important.
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The next one, magnesium. A lot of people know about magnesium.
It's a very common one. Like Like I said earlier, it helps with the bowels,
helps you use your bowels to dump. It helps them to...
Function properly but the thing about any mineral is like i said is a salt it
requires a lot of liquid so if you're using magnesium at night because it's
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going to pull all the liquid out of the colon in order to make it to dump to
be able to dump and you're going to get irritation,
and stuff if you do that a lot there are other ways to encourage the colon to
to move that it doesn't require something like magnesium because you can basically
get a rash on the inside of your colon.
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The nice thing about magnesium is that it helps our bodies to have a normal even keel system.
So it helps with the nerves and the muscles to function properly.
You know, like calcium helps with elasticity.
Magnesium helps it to move correctly, Whether it's like if you're wanting to
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contract the muscle so that your arm can move, that's where magnesium comes in.
The next major thing in the PM minerals is potassium. Potassium is essential for kidney function.
If you don't have potassium in a balance with sodium, then the kidneys don't
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function correctly. It can't filter through the urine and can't move it out.
Potassium is very essential.
That's why we do potassium by itself because most Americans have all sorts of
kidney issues and it comes from a lack of potassium.
Our bodies burn through it really, really fast.
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So, as you take potassium, your body's going to burn through it really fast.
It moves through the system because it's being used to filter and work the kidneys.
It also, like magnesium, helps the nerves and the muscles, regulates it,
keeps it moving correctly and stuff like that.
Potassium also helps a little bit with the pancreas and its function.
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So, potassium is really helpful with that.
Also, if you're having a lot of bladder and kidney issues related to water,
like retaining water or water buildup in the system,
potassium will help the body to be able to move it.
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So the next one is chromium.
When in the 80s they
used to coat cassette tapes with
chromium because it basically helped the
the tape to not deteriorate from repeated
use but this chromium in the body does something completely different basically
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it helps your your pancreas deal with sugar it helps the it makes it so your
blood sugar doesn't spike or drop or flip-flop all over the place.
It keeps the blood sugar consistent.
So chromium is a really essential mineral to have.
It doesn't take a lot. So calcium, magnesium, potassium, your body burns really fast and uses a lot of it.
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And so these next ones, it's little itty-bitty bits that are in the minerals
because if you look on the label, you know, where calcium is in milligrams,
a lot of these other minerals are in micrograms.
So it's one thousandth of or a hundred thousandth, depending on which one it is.
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That that is in each capsule so it's like little tiny bit but it's really really
important so the next mineral selenium
so that one helps with the thyroid function it helps the thyroid to.
Because your blood basically pumps through the thyroid the thyroid kills off any viruses,
extraction kills off anything that doesn't belong in the in the blood so selenium
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basically keeps your thyroid functioning properly so that it can move the blood
through the thyroid to clean it.
So it's really important. Also, selenium helps to make for healthy reproductive
organs, whether in a man or a woman.
It's what helps with the splitting of the cells.
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It helps your DNA to maintain its,
basically, if you've heard of oxidative damage or free radicals,
what that is is something that hits your DNA and splits it and breaks it and
changes the DNA in a cell.
And that's where you can come up with the cancers and all sorts of other health
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issues because the DNA is slightly changed.
So selenium actually maintains and helps the DNA to stay healthy and to repair
if there's some damage, it helps repair it.
So that's why selenium is really important in a multi-mineral.
Vanadium is another mineral. It goes back to blood sugar.
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Just like like the chromium helps to keep it at an even kill.
Selenium actually will help the body recognize, or not selenium, vanadium.
Vanadium helps the body recognize if it needs.
Like recognize when it needs more sugar and when it needs less sugar.
So it helps that keep that blood sugar normal.
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Vanadium is an amazing mineral. A lot of, if you look at a lot of diabetic formulas
and things like that, there'll actually be vanadium in there.
And some of them have chromium also to help the body maintain blood sugars where
they're supposed to be so so that they don't spike high or low or go all over the place.
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So it's a wonderful mineral. So the next mineral on the list in PAM Minerals is zinc.
Zinc is, it is the immune system. Basically, zinc is what feeds the immune system,
keeps it healthy, keeps it working.
The variant of the flu that was going around a few years ago,
that was the first thing that it would completely suck out of your body was the zinc.
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So, you know, when you have a flu or some other illness and your mouth tastes
like metal-y, like if you suck down a penny, you know, there's like that metal taste in your mouth.
It's your low on zinc and your immune system is like pulling zinc from wherever
it can to try and build up your immune system to fight whatever the disease is.
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So zinc is amazing for the immune system.
So, the next mineral on the list is manganese.
Manganese helps with that connective tissue that I was talking about,
joints and ligaments, like ligaments and tendons. So, manganese.
The manganese helps those connections stay tight.
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You know, like so you don't get a ripped ligament or a torn tendon or like a ligament in the tendon.
It's kind of like a straw, you know, like when you pull it really,
really tight and you can like stretch it a little bit. And it's never going to go back.
Well, our bodies can heal themselves. But so the manganese helps keep that from
doing that stretching. So it
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helps where they connect, where you've got muscle to bone or bone to bone.
It helps that connection stay strong.
So the next mineral is boron. Boron is a mineral that helps with bones, our bone growth.
Because our bones basically are hollow. And in the center is the marrow of our bones.
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And the marrow is where our white blood cells are made. So our bones are constantly growing and stuff.
They're constantly doing things and boron is essential for that to help the
blood or the bones make that marrow,
help the bones be strong so you don't get the, you know, demineralization is
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basically a bunch of little holes in it where it's, so it's not as strong. wrong.
Boron is also real helpful if you've broken a bone or something like that.
It helps with that knitting and putting the bones together.
The next mineral is copper. So, you know, we talk a lot about iron.
Iron's all for the blood.
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Copper also is. The reason our blood is red is the copper that's in the blood.
So copper, well, the blood is, so the blood is red because of iron. I made that mistake.
Blood is red because of iron, but when all of the, the oxygen is taken out of
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it, our blood is blue and that's the copper.
So copper basically helps to transport out the oxygen.
So as the, as our blood uses, our blood takes up oxygen and takes us throughout our body.
Copper basically helps the blood cells to transport the oxygen.
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Then when it can get rid of it, that's when it turns blue because there's no
oxygen left in the blood.
And the copper is what makes for that to make that transition healthy.
But it also is essential in white blood cells and in the immune system.
So copper really helps keep the body's immune system healthy.
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Healthy and because it's in the
white blood cells that attack the viruses or whatever
is making us sick so copper is really essential to for that health and then
so the one that i mixed up iron so the last mineral on in the pm minerals is
iron and that is of course for blood it that's the it's It's the health of the blood.
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So iron is, our blood is made up of what, if you've heard the word before, hemoglobin.
Basically, it's using that iron to make healthy blood.
Iron is essential for healthy blood. It's also really important to keep our blood moving.
It helps to clot it when it needs to clot, but not clot when it doesn't,
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like to not create clots in the body. So iron is really another one of those essential minerals.
So I hope through visiting with you that it helps to explain what all of the
minerals are in the PM minerals, why you'd want to take the PM minerals.
So going back to the protocols for illness, so everywhere where it had colloidal
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caps and the minerals that's mixed together into the PM minerals.
But it's on every single one of the protocols for illness because basically
we're always going to need minerals.
Our body burns through them, uses them up, and we need more.
We can get some of our minerals from food, but sometimes, you know,
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depending on our diet, depending on where we are, depending on what's in the
dirt, there's all sorts of depending-ons.
So by supplementing with a mineral and a vitamin, so Dr. James would always
give somebody minerals and vitamins.
And like that store that had a really hard time with us changing the color of their minerals.
The reason they gave, sold so many PM minerals is it pretty much would fix most problems.
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There are, you know, there are herbal supplements to fix major problems.
But anything basically anytime
you need any support to the body
can vitamins and minerals are the first to go to the where you want to go some
people there are some alternative practitioners that all they give people are
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vitamins and minerals because those are the building blocks that's what our
body uses to to keep us healthy.
So I hope this has been helpful and that it has enlightened you about using
the minerals, why you'd want to use the minerals and why it's what,
why it is suggested for every single protocol for illness.
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Music.
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So, today I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about, well, let's go back a bit.
So, somebody asked me, they're going through Dr.
James' book, The Reality of Verbal Therapy, and as they're going through the
protocols for illness section, with everything, you know, it gives the,
(00:31):
so it gives the illness, and underneath each illness it talks about the herbal
formulas that are good for it.
And the person reading through it, they're like, okay, every single one of them,
all of them without anything has colloidal caps and the minerals.
And they're like, why don't you make them anymore?
So they're like, we kind of want these colloidal caps that you keep talking
(00:56):
about, but you don't sell them.
So let's go back a little bit. When we were making colloidal caps,
caps we couldn't get rid of them nobody would buy them nobody would they were it was it was.
Colloidal minerals in a capsule nobody would buy them
and dr james was like if somebody's going
to take a mineral i would rather them take colloidal minerals
(01:18):
over a mineral combination but nobody would take them so he's like solve the
problem let's mix them so that so we did that so we We took the minerals and
colloidal caps and mixed them and created PM Minerals.
Or if you look on the label, it's PM Minerals Plus. And then underneath it in
(01:40):
smaller letters, it's chelated trace minerals.
So we mixed the two. So we're still making colloidal caps because the colloidal
caps were much more effective, much more, they helped with the mineral,
getting minerals into the body.
They helped with maintaining pH. They helped with blood sugar.
(02:01):
Anything that you would take a mineral for, colloidal caps did it better.
So we wanted to put it out there. And it was really funny when we made the decision to do that.
We had a place that would order, like a store, they'd order four or five bottles
every week of the minerals.
(02:21):
And then we put colloidal caps and mixed them. And we're like,
okay, now instead of the minerals, we have the PM Minerals Plus. us.
And they were livid. They were so upset.
They called us and yelled at us. And they said, you have to go back. We can't have this.
They're not white. They're not white like a mineral is supposed to be.
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They're gray or kind of grayish black.
They were mad at us. And so Dr. James was like, the colloidal minerals work better.
I can't bend on this. I know that the colloidal minerals work better.
So I need to have them mixed.
And, and so we talked about it. And we decided, well, let's just give them some so they can try them.
(03:09):
And see how, see the difference that the minerals by themselves or the minerals
with colloidal minerals mixed in.
So we sent them some free samples to let them try it, to see what they thought of it.
They were still pretty livid with us because they're like, they're black.
They're not, they're not white like minerals are supposed to be.
(03:30):
Minerals are supposed to be white.
And we're like, just try it, see what you think. So they tried it and they went
from take ordering ordering five bottles to 25 to 30 bottles of PM minerals every week.
Basically, it was like, it was a night and day difference. They're like,
these are the most amazing things.
I've had people call me and they're like, okay, I'm out traveling.
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I forgot, ran out of minerals, forgot to bring more.
What can I buy in the health food store that will make, that is the same thing?
And it's like, uh, there isn't an option because of the colloidal minerals.
So if If you do run out and you can't find it, if you can find a colloidal mineral,
which it's not easy to find, taking that along with a good multi-mineral will kind of approximate it.
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But colloidal minerals are really hard to find. That's why we put them into the PM minerals.
So to talk about minerals, we need to talk about salts.
So whenever, just about anybody, if you say salt, they think table salt.
You know, and if you've taken any chemistry, sodium chloride or whatever,
(04:39):
it's table salt is what people think of when they talk about a salt.
But a salt in chemistry is when you have, there's a reaction with an acid and a base and a metal.
And the result is called a salt. Basically, what happens is all the hydrogen
(05:00):
in the acid gets eaten up and is replaced with a metal.
So there's different kinds of salts. So when we talk about globbersalt,
which is another kind of salt that's made up of the sodium metal.
So the hydrogen is replaced with sodium. And the different kinds of salts do
(05:25):
different things in the body. So a sodium is, it's very drying.
So like, you know, when people preserve meat in old fashioned ways,
salted pork, anything like that, basically they will take meat and they will pack it with salt.
Sodium salt and what that does is
(05:46):
it sucks all the moisture out of it so that there's nowhere
for bacteria to grow because bacteria requires oxygen
and water to grow so if
you take all the water out bacteria can't grow and your food won't spoil so
that's why they pack it in salt it's a sodium salt there's also other salts
(06:06):
that where the hydrogen is replaced with the magnesium and And that salt is Epsom salt.
So what magnesium does is it regulates a lot of the body systems,
but it also dumps the bowels.
So if you ever take like a dose of Epsom salt, it's going to make the bowels release.
(06:30):
Some people will take magnesium before bed to help their bowels move first thing in the morning.
So so when whenever you
think of a white mineral like salt is white basically it's
a combination of a bunch of different salts and depending
on the acid that it comes from that's
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where you get the second half of the name so there's calcium citrate so the
citrate was the acid calcium or a tape or a tape was the acid part and then
it's replaced with the calcium metal or a magnesium metal or so that's where
you come up with different kinds of calcium.
Different kinds of minerals and stuff.
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So I kind of want to like give you a quick overview of what pH is just to help
you understand part of why we take minerals.
So the high pH, what it stands for is potential for hydrogen.
So our body uses hydrogen in different ways and in a mineral the hydrogen is
replaced with the metal that is then bioavailable which means that our body can use it.
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So when you have different different pHs of things, there was the hydrogen is
now replaced with a metal that our body can use.
So whether it's calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, boron, whatever.
So just to understand that, so when you have a salt, basically,
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instead of the hydrogen that the body can use, it has a metal that the body can use.
So I kind of want to talk about the different minerals
that are in the PM
minerals so of course you
know I talked a little bit about the colloidal caps
so colloidal minerals come from
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lots of different places so the the chelated trace minerals or the colloidal
minerals that are in the PM minerals basically these are ancient fossilized
swamps so the whenever there's plants or anything like that.
They take metals and they use different metals for different things for life.
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The different minerals that we have all around us, the plants take them and
use them. And then when we eat the plants, we are able to absorb those minerals.
And the reason we can absorb them is because the plant has already broken it down.
It's separated out the parts that we don't need. so these
fossilized swamps where the
chelated or the yeah the
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chelated trace minerals come from is the the
colloidal means that it's very very small which
means that it can pass through cell walls it can the minerals
can go wherever they need to go because the plants
have already broken it down so that's why
we put those in there they're they're minerals that are extremely bio available
there's a lot of minerals that we only
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need a tiny tiny tiny little bit about a little bit of in our bodies but they
make a whole big difference and so that's why those the colloidal minerals are
in there they're broken down they're already ready our body just takes them
and uses them wherever it needs it so.
So that's one of the major things in the PM minerals.
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So let's talk about the minerals that are in it and what they do.
So first and foremost, whenever you talk about a multi-mineral formula,
it's going to have three major things, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
Sometimes they'll say abbreviated version of that CalMag pot because those three
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are the major minerals that our body uses.
It uses those for structure, bones, teeth, regulates all of our nerves,
our muscles, helps our muscles to move, helps them to contract and relax and everything like that.
So those are the main things in any multimineral. So in the PM minerals,
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we have calcium citrate.
So the citrate's a very bioavailable version of calcium.
It can be digested easily, which means that it can be absorbed into the body.
But one of the things you always, always, always want to check for with any
mineral formula that you're taking, especially one that has calcium, is if it has vitamin D.
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Our body cannot use calcium if there's not vitamin D.
So if there's not vitamin D in the stomach when calcium arrives,
the body just pushes it out. It's thrown away. It's wasted.
It can't use it. So vitamin D is is one of the most essential things.
And it's not, it doesn't take a lot. It's little tiny bit of vitamin D,
but if you don't have vitamin D with the calcium, your body can't absorb it.
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So if you look at milk where they process it, you know, like 1%,
2%, whatever, they take out all of the fat, but then they have to put back in
vitamin D or your body can't use it.
So calcium Calcium is, you know, everybody knows about calcium because it's
what makes strong, dense bones.
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You know, if your bones aren't dense, they break easy. They become brittle.
So calcium is really important for bones. It helps with the structure of our entire body.
So it helps with the connection between bones and muscle, bone to bone, you know, any structure,
ligaments, tendons, all of that, the calcium is what connects and holds everything together.
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It's kind of, and it also helps with elasticity.
So if our muscles or our tendons can't move, then, you know,
you get all sorts of issues and pains and aches and things because there's not enough calcium.
Calcium is essential whenever there's growing pains.
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Calcium is the mineral that basically gives the elasticity.
Growing pains is that the muscles are stretching as the body is growing and
there's no elasticity, so it can't stretch any further.
So if you have a young child that's having growing pains, shin splints,
anything where the muscles are trying to be be stretched, but they don't have
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that elasticity, then calcium is really helpful.
A lot of times when we had some of our young children that had growing pains
and they would wake up in the night just in so much pain and crying and stuff.
And as a parent, you're just desperate to know what to do.
If you give them 2 p.m. minerals, within a half hour, they're able to go back
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to sleep and that pain is gone.
Restless leg syndrome quite often is just a calcium deficiency because the muscles
are, basically they're tight.
And so they're trying to stretch, but there's no elasticity.
So calcium is really, really important.
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The next one, magnesium. A lot of people know about magnesium.
It's a very common one. Like Like I said earlier, it helps with the bowels,
helps you use your bowels to dump. It helps them to...
Function properly but the thing about any mineral is like i said is a salt it
requires a lot of liquid so if you're using magnesium at night because it's
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going to pull all the liquid out of the colon in order to make it to dump to
be able to dump and you're going to get irritation,
and stuff if you do that a lot there are other ways to encourage the colon to
to move that it doesn't require something like magnesium because you can basically
get a rash on the inside of your colon.
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The nice thing about magnesium is that it helps our bodies to have a normal even keel system.
So it helps with the nerves and the muscles to function properly.
You know, like calcium helps with elasticity.
Magnesium helps it to move correctly, Whether it's like if you're wanting to
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contract the muscle so that your arm can move, that's where magnesium comes in.
The next major thing in the PM minerals is potassium. Potassium is essential for kidney function.
If you don't have potassium in a balance with sodium, then the kidneys don't
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function correctly. It can't filter through the urine and can't move it out.
Potassium is very essential.
That's why we do potassium by itself because most Americans have all sorts of
kidney issues and it comes from a lack of potassium.
Our bodies burn through it really, really fast.
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So, as you take potassium, your body's going to burn through it really fast.
It moves through the system because it's being used to filter and work the kidneys.
It also, like magnesium, helps the nerves and the muscles, regulates it,
keeps it moving correctly and stuff like that.
Potassium also helps a little bit with the pancreas and its function.
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So, potassium is really helpful with that.
Also, if you're having a lot of bladder and kidney issues related to water,
like retaining water or water buildup in the system,
potassium will help the body to be able to move it.
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So the next one is chromium.
When in the 80s they
used to coat cassette tapes with
chromium because it basically helped the
the tape to not deteriorate from repeated
use but this chromium in the body does something completely different basically
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it helps your your pancreas deal with sugar it helps the it makes it so your
blood sugar doesn't spike or drop or flip-flop all over the place.
It keeps the blood sugar consistent.
So chromium is a really essential mineral to have.
It doesn't take a lot. So calcium, magnesium, potassium, your body burns really fast and uses a lot of it.
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And so these next ones, it's little itty-bitty bits that are in the minerals
because if you look on the label, you know, where calcium is in milligrams,
a lot of these other minerals are in micrograms.
So it's one thousandth of or a hundred thousandth, depending on which one it is.
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That that is in each capsule so it's like little tiny bit but it's really really
important so the next mineral selenium
so that one helps with the thyroid function it helps the thyroid to.
Because your blood basically pumps through the thyroid the thyroid kills off any viruses,
extraction kills off anything that doesn't belong in the in the blood so selenium
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basically keeps your thyroid functioning properly so that it can move the blood
through the thyroid to clean it.
So it's really important. Also, selenium helps to make for healthy reproductive
organs, whether in a man or a woman.
It's what helps with the splitting of the cells.
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It helps your DNA to maintain its,
basically, if you've heard of oxidative damage or free radicals,
what that is is something that hits your DNA and splits it and breaks it and
changes the DNA in a cell.
And that's where you can come up with the cancers and all sorts of other health
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issues because the DNA is slightly changed.
So selenium actually maintains and helps the DNA to stay healthy and to repair
if there's some damage, it helps repair it.
So that's why selenium is really important in a multi-mineral.
Vanadium is another mineral. It goes back to blood sugar.
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Just like like the chromium helps to keep it at an even kill.
Selenium actually will help the body recognize, or not selenium, vanadium.
Vanadium helps the body recognize if it needs.
Like recognize when it needs more sugar and when it needs less sugar.
So it helps that keep that blood sugar normal.
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Vanadium is an amazing mineral. A lot of, if you look at a lot of diabetic formulas
and things like that, there'll actually be vanadium in there.
And some of them have chromium also to help the body maintain blood sugars where
they're supposed to be so so that they don't spike high or low or go all over the place.
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So it's a wonderful mineral. So the next mineral on the list in PAM Minerals is zinc.
Zinc is, it is the immune system. Basically, zinc is what feeds the immune system,
keeps it healthy, keeps it working.
The variant of the flu that was going around a few years ago,
that was the first thing that it would completely suck out of your body was the zinc.
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So, you know, when you have a flu or some other illness and your mouth tastes
like metal-y, like if you suck down a penny, you know, there's like that metal taste in your mouth.
It's your low on zinc and your immune system is like pulling zinc from wherever
it can to try and build up your immune system to fight whatever the disease is.
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So zinc is amazing for the immune system.
So, the next mineral on the list is manganese.
Manganese helps with that connective tissue that I was talking about,
joints and ligaments, like ligaments and tendons. So, manganese.
The manganese helps those connections stay tight.
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You know, like so you don't get a ripped ligament or a torn tendon or like a ligament in the tendon.
It's kind of like a straw, you know, like when you pull it really,
really tight and you can like stretch it a little bit. And it's never going to go back.
Well, our bodies can heal themselves. But so the manganese helps keep that from
doing that stretching. So it
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helps where they connect, where you've got muscle to bone or bone to bone.
It helps that connection stay strong.
So the next mineral is boron. Boron is a mineral that helps with bones, our bone growth.
Because our bones basically are hollow. And in the center is the marrow of our bones.
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And the marrow is where our white blood cells are made. So our bones are constantly growing and stuff.
They're constantly doing things and boron is essential for that to help the
blood or the bones make that marrow,
help the bones be strong so you don't get the, you know, demineralization is
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basically a bunch of little holes in it where it's, so it's not as strong. wrong.
Boron is also real helpful if you've broken a bone or something like that.
It helps with that knitting and putting the bones together.
The next mineral is copper. So, you know, we talk a lot about iron.
Iron's all for the blood.
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Copper also is. The reason our blood is red is the copper that's in the blood.
So copper, well, the blood is, so the blood is red because of iron. I made that mistake.
Blood is red because of iron, but when all of the, the oxygen is taken out of
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it, our blood is blue and that's the copper.
So copper basically helps to transport out the oxygen.
So as the, as our blood uses, our blood takes up oxygen and takes us throughout our body.
Copper basically helps the blood cells to transport the oxygen.
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Then when it can get rid of it, that's when it turns blue because there's no
oxygen left in the blood.
And the copper is what makes for that to make that transition healthy.
But it also is essential in white blood cells and in the immune system.
So copper really helps keep the body's immune system healthy.
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Healthy and because it's in the
white blood cells that attack the viruses or whatever
is making us sick so copper is really essential to for that health and then
so the one that i mixed up iron so the last mineral on in the pm minerals is
iron and that is of course for blood it that's the it's It's the health of the blood.
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So iron is, our blood is made up of what, if you've heard the word before, hemoglobin.
Basically, it's using that iron to make healthy blood.
Iron is essential for healthy blood. It's also really important to keep our blood moving.
It helps to clot it when it needs to clot, but not clot when it doesn't,
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like to not create clots in the body. So iron is really another one of those essential minerals.
So I hope through visiting with you that it helps to explain what all of the
minerals are in the PM minerals, why you'd want to take the PM minerals.
So going back to the protocols for illness, so everywhere where it had colloidal
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caps and the minerals that's mixed together into the PM minerals.
But it's on every single one of the protocols for illness because basically
we're always going to need minerals.
Our body burns through them, uses them up, and we need more.
We can get some of our minerals from food, but sometimes, you know,
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depending on our diet, depending on where we are, depending on what's in the
dirt, there's all sorts of depending-ons.
So by supplementing with a mineral and a vitamin, so Dr. James would always
give somebody minerals and vitamins.
And like that store that had a really hard time with us changing the color of their minerals.
The reason they gave, sold so many PM minerals is it pretty much would fix most problems.
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There are, you know, there are herbal supplements to fix major problems.
But anything basically anytime
you need any support to the body
can vitamins and minerals are the first to go to the where you want to go some
people there are some alternative practitioners that all they give people are
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vitamins and minerals because those are the building blocks that's what our
body uses to to keep us healthy.
So I hope this has been helpful and that it has enlightened you about using
the minerals, why you'd want to use the minerals and why it's what,
why it is suggested for every single protocol for illness.
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